Writer

Ian Strasfogel

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'The Nephew': Bathetic Optimism

I wish I could report enthusiastically about James Purdy's latest work, The Nephew, But unfortunately this second novel lacks those


"Turandot": Puccini's Best

COMO PUCCINI: Turandot, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tejussi Bjoeriling, Giorgio Tozzi Rome Opera House Or and Chorus conducted by Leinsdorf. RCA


The Magician

Ingmar Bergman has produced another tantalizing film. Hampered by a scenario (as usual, Bergman's own) that is full of tricks


Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra

The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has not lost the sheen and precision it acquired last year when Michael Senturia '58, was named


Portrait of the Uncle As an Artist

Vincent W. Van Gogh grew up with his uncle's paintings and has devoted part of his life to a study


Berenson's Life-Enhancing Art

This is Bernard Berenson's swan B.B. died in I Tatti, the Florence villa which he willed to Harvard, after correcting


Khovantschina

The Russian film industry has mobilized vast resources to bring Moussorgsky's unfinished opera Khovantschina to the screen, but it has


College Will Drop Surveys In Fine Arts

The Department of Fine Arts will replace all its middle-level survey courses with intensive studies of specific problems in art,


Two University Exhibitions

The unfortunate tradition of innumerable German graphics at the Busch-Reisinger has been broken by its present exhibit of recent acquisitions.